Interesting historical photos

skye · Aug 28, 2023

Einstein again....with fuzzy slippers

skye · Aug 28, 2023

One last....well dressed Einstein

Mindful · Aug 29, 2023

West Virginia, 1938...

Coal miner's shack and some of his family, Pursglove, West Virginia.

Ringo · Aug 29, 2023

The last Confederate soldiers 1951.

Students from Whittier Negro School in Hampton, Virginia, USA, take the oath of allegiance to the American flag using a gesture called the Bellamy salute. These events were held in memory of the Union soldiers who died in the Civil War between the North and South

The story of the survival of Mexican student Wenceslao Moguel, captured during the Mexican Revolution and sentenced to death without trial in 1915, is incredible. During the execution, 9 bullets hit him, and the 9th bullet was fired directly into his head by a soldier from the firing squad at close range to finish him off. But Wenceslao survived, and as night fell, he managed to crawl to the nearest church of St. James the Apostle, where he was treated. These events became known in 1933, when the biography of Moguelshya was published by the Yucatan scholar and writer Santiago Mendez Espadas. And in 1937, Venceslao was invited to appear on Robert Ripley's Believe It or Not! popular radio program in 1937. In the photo, Moguel points to a scar left by a bullet wound.

Mindful · Aug 30, 2023

New York in 1900, Laundry day.

Fast forward, and it’s all huge electric dryers these days.

Ringo · Aug 30, 2023

Weatherman2020 said:
I’m a WW2 historian by choice and your education is in….

Voronezh University. Faculty of History 1974-79.

Mindful · Aug 30, 2023

Menu for immigrants, Ellis Island.

Pellinore · Aug 30, 2023

Weatherman2020 said:
I can, not sure if you can based upon your lack of education.
Communism and Nazism are fairly comparable worldviews with only minor differences.
Both are centralized governments controlled by a ruling class, murdered its own citizens to maintain control and wealth, socialism at their cores, both aim for world domination, vilified a segment of their own societies to unite national pride, had an official state run youth programs, installed puppet governments in conquered lands, censorship of anything deemed a threat, death camps, and both rise out of the ashes of problems of the early 20th century.

Education is a wonderful thing.

You had me until "socialism at their cores."

Socialism is all about equality, guaranteeing that each person owns an equal amount of industry; Communism is an authoritarian form of government built on the promise of ultimate socialism, and equality for all. Nazism is the German form of Fascism, which is a form of extreme nationalism; the last thing they want is for their chosen nation of people to be equal with the others.

Communists and Nazis are both authoritarians, and therefore opponents of democracy, but they are die-hard enemies of each other as well. I won't derail this thread any longer, but I had to join the others in pointing that out.

Litwin · Aug 30, 2023

Ringo said:
Voronezh University. Faculty of History 1974-79.

shitt hole

Weatherman2020 · Aug 30, 2023

Pellinore said:
You had me until "socialism at their cores."

Socialism is all about equality, guaranteeing that each person owns an equal amount of industry; Communism is an authoritarian form of government built on the promise of ultimate socialism, and equality for all. Nazism is the German form of Fascism, which is a form of extreme nationalism; the last thing they want is for their chosen nation of people to be equal with the others.

Communists and Nazis are both authoritarians, and therefore opponents of democracy, but they are die-hard enemies of each other as well. I won't derail this thread any longer, but I had to join the others in pointing that out.

What part of National Socialist German Workers' Party is confusing?

Ringo · Aug 30, 2023

Weatherman2020 said:
What part of National Socialist German Workers' Party is confusing?

And you, calling yourself a World War II historian, write this?
If Hitler were to start a party today, he'd call it the "Trans/Gay/Lesbian Progressive Party". Or something like that. Because the nazi party then used demagoguery to the point of using communist workers songs with altered lyrics in their actions.

Weatherman2020 · Aug 30, 2023

Ringo said:
And you, calling yourself a World War II historian, write this?
If Hitler were to start a party today, he'd call it the "Trans/Gay/Lesbian Progressive Party". Or something like that. Because the nazi party then used demagoguery to the point of using communist workers songs with altered lyrics in their actions.

They had a quasi socialist system. Welfare and healthcare for ayrians, everyone else was to die. They allowed private ownership of companies, but with the strict understanding that they followed the orders of the government. Companies could not do anything not sanctioned by the government. Volkswagen wasn’t going to produce anything it wanted. Free enterprise didn’t exist and the government manipulated and micromanaged the economy.
Goebbels even once remarked that he’d sooner live under Bolshevism than capitalism.

Put down the koolaid and stop believing the propaganda trying to spin them as right wing.

Ringo · Aug 31, 2023

Weatherman2020 said:
They had a quasi socialist system. Welfare and healthcare for ayrians, everyone else was to die.

Oh yeah! Real socialism.

Weatherman2020 said:
They allowed private ownership of companies, but with the strict understanding that they followed the orders of the government.

Oh, what unusual behavior in a capitalist society! (sarcasm mode off).
Do you know that the german monopolies, as a result of the lost war, increased their wealth by 5 times? LOST WAR. So why did the german capitalists have to oppose the power of the nazis?
"The capitalist will sell the rope on which he will be hanged" (c)

Mindful · Aug 31, 2023

What happened to the historical photographs?

Weatherman2020 · Aug 31, 2023

Ringo said:
Oh yeah! Real socialism.

Oh, what unusual behavior in a capitalist society! (sarcasm mode off).
Do you know that the german monopolies, as a result of the lost war, increased their wealth by 5 times? LOST WAR. So why did the german capitalists have to oppose the power of the nazis?
"The capitalist will sell the rope on which he will be hanged" (c)

Capitalism as in ‘we’ll let you profit from what the government orders you to make’ you mean.

And taking money by force to make others wealthy is pure socialism, thanks for pointing that out.

Ringo · Aug 31, 2023

Weatherman2020 said:
And taking money by force to make others wealthy is pure socialism

That's what they taught you in the indoctrination college?
I didn't know that the slave trade, piracy, the robbery of colonies, all that, which was in history the period of initial capital accumulation, was socialism.... I'd sue your school if I were you.

Ringo · Aug 31, 2023

An American woman bends over the barrier and kisses Adolf Hitler. Olympic Games in 1936.
Just before the finish of the men's 1500-meter freestyle swim, a woman in a red hat, who was prevented by guards from photographing Hitler at close range, broke through the cordon during the general excitement at the finish of the swim, shook the Fuhrer's hand, and then kissed him, with 20,000 people present in the stadium, burst into laughter.
Hitler, who was in a good mood, shared in the general merriment, applauding the woman, who returned to her seat in triumph. It was 40-year-old American Carla De Vries. Several SS guards were dismissed and several others were demoted because the woman had managed to break through to the Führer.

This image, called "Help from the Holy Father," was taken by photographer Hector Rondon Lovera. In the photo, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1963, a priest holds a soldier dying from a sniper's bullet to give him absolution before he dies. This scene was shot on June 4, 1962, during the El Portenazo military uprising in Venezuela, when rebels attempted to storm the town of Puerto Cabello. The priest in the photograph is Venezuelan naval chaplain Luis Padillo. The priest was in the rebels' line of fire at the time, but it was highly unlikely that he would have been shot, as his death could have been used as a propaganda tool. In addition, the enemy soldiers were Catholic and would likely have refused to kill the priest even under orders.

Litwin · Sep 1, 2023

Ringo said:
An American woman bends over the barrier and kisses Adolf Hitler. Olympic Games in 1936.
Just before the finish of the men's 1500-meter freestyle swim, a woman in a red hat, who was prevented by guards from photographing Hitler at close range, broke through the cordon during the general excitement at the finish of the swim, shook the Fuhrer's hand, and then kissed him, with 20,000 people present in the stadium, burst into laughter.
Hitler, who was in a good mood, shared in the general merriment, applauding the woman, who returned to her seat in triumph. It was 40-year-old American Carla De Vries. Several SS guards were dismissed and several others were demoted because the woman had managed to break through to the Führer.

This image, called "Help from the Holy Father," was taken by photographer Hector Rondon Lovera. In the photo, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1963, a priest holds a soldier dying from a sniper's bullet to give him absolution before he dies. This scene was shot on June 4, 1962, during the El Portenazo military uprising in Venezuela, when rebels attempted to storm the town of Puerto Cabello. The priest in the photograph is Venezuelan naval chaplain Luis Padillo. The priest was in the rebels' line of fire at the time, but it was highly unlikely that he would have been shot, as his death could have been used as a propaganda tool. In addition, the enemy soldiers were Catholic and would likely have refused to kill the priest even under orders.